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“Efisworth Dickson...

. The big x jews” is. that ‘we-

population explosion...

‘decline. ° During . 1968-1975 " the fertility rates: dropped by” 10 per - cent: ° or -more—i ~ dozens of poor. and: middling _ nations, - including China,. . Bangladesh, Egypt; : ‘Mexico, Vietnam, and .Thailand —- countries © with 40. per cent. of -total -

r.30' pér cént: opulation;.and yet. in ‘many of: them ‘too the rates _ declined markedly.’ ,

Ay. HOPE OF. STABILITY -

* Mortality: ‘rates dropped. . _ all cover -the world. many years ago. When death rates

and birth ‘rates were both

~ high, . “populations | changed

only. slowly, and-° in the Fane -both-2 vr the, populayon will again

change slowly; perhaps upward but perhaps down- ward. It was in the years between, when | births ‘remained high after death rates dropped, that growth was fast and furious. Thus the fertility: drop is essen- tially a promise of stability to

° _ come.

In. West Germany politic- jans have started to cam- paign on the slogan “Death of a nation,” noting that on present trends the country’s population will drop by a third in the next 50 years. Its neighbors, France and East Germany, have both adopted policies to’ en-

courage more births, suchas ,

higher children’s allowances,

a year off at full pay'for new mothers, and the like; an astohishing turn of events in a world so recently fearful of the population explosion. —

The second most cheerful note in world news is that while population growth rates have been declining, world food supplies have kept right on growing. TV screens and the front pages of newspapers, which once

rang with horrific fales of

| Higher i interest for munil

Loans by municipilities for public projects should be’ allowed to exceed = the maximum six’ per cent

currently charged, Alder-

= = =oman Robert Hicks tofti West

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Indonesia, |

world si ta ae . ‘They were... — ‘been growing at we

ean foresée the .end of she em ‘ over: the-world; ‘fertility i is: in’ - c

‘The » wheat ‘situation a -about the same: surpluses... falling. prices, competition. —

' among. the big producers to. sell their exporsable s Stocks.

For” ‘the foreseeable - future, the world has enough’ _ energy, more. than: enough by. some.:measures; though. it may, not. be available in.the™ . most’ desirable form:in every | a country and for every use.. Oil prices are likely tobe the _ “worst news in that sector: _they should have a moderate’ —

impact on _ industrialized - nations but may slow the industrialization of the poorest natio

. SLOWER GROWTH

The rich countries con- tinue in recession that followed the winter of 1973- _ 74, the “oil shock” that trig- gered the end-of big growth rates in industrialized countries..No.. doubt the future will contain years of faster growth than we are

SHE KNOWS your needs from

26 years involvement with téens,

now experiencing, bt, on _ seniors, native’. peoples, ethnic average there is going to\be groups, home owners, tenants and noticeably less. growth, business people.

partly because populations are’ growing more slowly, partly for all the consequen- ces of maturity: the end of _the industrial revolution, the

YOU KNOW, from her 7 years

on council, that she always listened td you and always spoke out for your “Tights to justice, legality and equality. .

“weakening of institutions, the satiety of the’ affluent, the rise in competition from | newly industrialized nations.

¢ CONTROL TAXES

Stella JoDean has always spoken out for FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY and AD- MINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY, to reduce the tax burden.

development to give a heart to the community and to share the tax burden.

The milleAnium will not bring universal. milk and honey, then, but in the context of the terrible warnings we were’ getting just a few years ago,’ the forecast is considerably brighter. The world is

_ beginning to look manage- able seein.

* NO STRATIFICATION OF RENTAL PROPERTY

The serious shortage of. rental ac- commodation requires a freeze on ap- proval of stratification conversion of. residential properties.

In 1977 she played a major role in the reorganization of the RECREATION COM- MISSION operations to streamline the ad- ministration to improve programs and to extend lower famlly rates while reducing the 1977 subsidy by $300,000.

* PARKS and RECREATION

Stella Jo Dean has always been in the forefront of the fight for waterfront ac- cess, for active parks and quiet parks, and for controls on noise and air pollution to make North Vancouvér City an Ideal place to live.

°

She has been a long time ‘advocate of revitalizing the LONSDALE CORE area. City owned land in Lower Lonsdale; which con- _ Stitutes one of the prime land areas avaitabie in Canada today, should be internationally ad- ~'vertised to” attract a” “comprehensive

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oans?

ancouver week,

Current high interest rates elsewhere, he said, will have to be borne by the taxpayer unless the municipal loan interest rate is raised.

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